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I visited the MIT Museum in November, 2008 and was blown away by what I saw! Their creative use of technology was truly inspiring! It was not *just* technology, it was art!
Working at the intersection of art, science and technology –you can’t help but feel like you’re in a digital renaissance at a technophile mecca!

Founded by Nicolas Negroponte and Jerome Wiesner in 1985, MIT’s Media lab is a leader of innovation in technology.

For Negroponte, “Innovation comes from differences. Lateral thinking is key, because ‘incrementalism’ is the enemy of creativity. By juxtaposing people from very different backgrounds, new ideas are bound to emerge.”

Similarly, Wiesner believed, “we cannot hope to solve the problems facing us without a greater understanding of the modern world, based on the integration of knowledge.”

MIT Lab’s philosophy is to inspire the innovative use of technologies through passion and creativity that aims to help people. It fosters a “unique culture of learning by doing, developing technologies that empower people of all ages, from all walks of life, in all societies, to design and invent new possibilities for themselves and their communities.”

The One Laptop per Child is just one of so many amazing and inspiring projects, born of MIT’s Media Lab! –Now that’s technology with heart!